Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2005

IIRC, Alfred functions like the old Extensions Manager control panel or
like the current preference pane Diablotin
(<http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Diablotin.html>). Neither edits the
Services menu. For that, you want Services Manager
<http://www.blacktree.com/apps/servicemanager/index.html>. It works in
Panther, but I don't know about Tiger.

It's a major problem. The only way to do it is to modify the plists
inside the apps that are supplying these services. Do you really want to
do that? If so, use the Service Manager pref pane from Blacktree (this
is all explained in my Customizing Panther / Tiger ebooks).

Yes, I just saw something like this on versiontracker in the last day or
two. m.

Here's an AppleScript droplet:

on open inFiles
  -- Undo newsreader wrapping in next line.
  set theReply to display dialog "Enter the text to store as a
comment." default answer ""
  if the button returned of theReply is "Cancel" then return
  set theNewText to the text returned of the theReply
 
  repeat with theFile in inFiles
     tell application "Finder"
        set theOldComment to comment of theFile
        if theOldComment = "" then
           set theNewComment to theNewText
        else
           -- Note newline in this string
           set theNewComment to theOldComment & "
" & theNewText
        end if
        set comment of theFile to theNewComment
     end tell
  end repeat
end open